Poetic Asides with Robert Lee Brewer - Poet's Market updates

Promoting Poetry-Related Stuff

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:55:50 GMT

While I love being able to offer all the free and valuable content on Poetic Asides, I'm also not ashamed of the fact that I have to sell stuff to keep working as an editor. I've been working for nearly 10 years on Writer's Market and other writing titles, and I jumped at the opportunity to edit Poet's Market last year. After months of hard work, the 2010 Poet's Market is now ready for consumption.

It includes all the listings for magazines, book publishers, contests, conferences, and more that you'd expect from Poet's Market, but I'm also proud of the amazing articles in this edition. From well-known slam poet Taylor Mali giving poetry reading advice to an article on poetry translations, I really feel the 2010 Poet's Market has significantly raised the bar as far as editorial content. (In fact, I've got my work cut out for me to figure out how I can top myself for 2011.)

Oh yeah, each copy of the 2010 Poet's Market also includes an activation code that provides access to the poetry listings on WritersMarket.com for a full year (from when you sign up).

Anyway, the book is now available at a great discounted price on our WritersDigestShop.com site. With a cover price of $29.99, you can get it off the site for only $19.79. And it's brand-spanking-new. Can't beat that.

Check it out at: http://www.writersdigestshop.com/product/2010-poets-market/

Since I don't communicate with the promotions people too often, I'm not sure if that price is permanent or temporary--so it's probably best to order as soon as you can before they come up with some new pricing strategy.

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And earlier this year, I led a very successful online seminar for poets titled: Get Your Poetry Published. Many people asked if we'd be offering up a recorded version of the seminar, and I'm happy to say that we're offering that now as well.

In this seminar, I explain how to identify appropriate markets; avoid mistakes many poets make when they submit their writing that can garner an immediate rejection (before the editor even reads any of the poems); write good cover letters; and I give tips on how to track your submissions.

If you're interested in learning more about this recorded seminar (or even if you just want to see a staff headshot taken of me from earlier this year), go to: http://www.writersdigestshop.com/product/get-your-poetry-published-download/

April PAD Challenge: Day 8

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:25:58 GMT

If you haven't done so yet, I just wanted to mention that you can sign up for a free monthly newsletter from Poet's Market (edited by yours truly) by going to www.poetsmarket.com and entering your e-mail address in the little field provided for e-mail updates. It's a good way to keep up with what's going on in Poet's Market, as well as this blog, and it's free!

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Also, I'm going to be interviewed tonight at 8 p.m. (Pacific) on J.P. Dancing Bear's "Out of Our Minds" poetry program on KKUP Cupertino. We'll be talking poetry and discussing the April PAD Challenge.

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For today's prompt, I want you to write a poem about either a specific routine or routines in general. Maybe something related to taking out the trash each week or washing the dishes every night--or something more bizarre (yet still a routine).

Here's my attempt for the day:

"Routine"

Each morning, I wake up and weigh myself,
thinking that a prompt and poem won't come
today. I look at the books on my shelf,
but my brain still feels permanently numb

thinking that a prompt and poem won't come.
I search for poetic forms to assume,
but my brain still feels permanently numb.
It comes down to triolet or pantoum--

this search for poetic forms to assume.
Both offer rhymes and some repetition:
It comes down to triolet or pantoum.
I choose without hope or expectation.

Both offer rhymes and some repetition.
Today, I look at the books on my shelf
and choose without hope or expectation--
each morning, waking up to weigh myself.

Poetry Writing Titles on Sale Through April

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:17:14 GMT

Our eCommerce Marketing Manager just let me know this morning that all our poetry-related Writer's Digest Books will be on sale through the month of April. All our poetry writing books will be marked down at least 20% during the month (no offer code needed) and orders that exceed $25 get free U.S. shipping (sorry non-U.S. poets).

If you're interested in checking them out, just go to: http://www.writersdigestshop.com/category/poetry

Interview With Poet Jeannine Hall Gailey

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:22:26 GMT

Jeannine Hall Gailey is a West Coast journalist who publishes articles on subject matter as varied as how to bake a perfect scone to how to secure your web services application. (It should also be noted that she is writing a couple pieces for me for the 2010 Poet's Market.)

Gailey's poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Verse Daily, and 32 Poems, among others. She's published a chapbook, "Female Comic Book Superheroes" (Pudding House), and a full length collection, Becoming the Villainess (Steel Toe Books). Plus, Jeannine is quick to point out that she still reads comics.

There were many poems from Becoming the Villainess that I absolutely loved, but this is my favorite:

She Escapes the Film Noir

I slip out the door,
wearing a raincoat as disguise.
It might have wrinkles, indicating a recent tryst.
Also, I may wear a fedora.
I will certainly have a lot of hair
falling over the brim of my eyelashes, either because
I'm too busy to cut it
or I don't want anyone looking me in the eyes.
Ominous footsteps echo in an unseen room,
along with distant thunder.
We are unsure of the dialogue in this script.

You watch me lean into the wet, shining street
and peer, nervous, into shadows.
Am I looking for you?
Or the man with a gun?
Either way, I'm holding tickets to Paris.
Care to join me?
I would light a cigarette
except for the damn rain. My lipstick
in this lighting is darker than blood,
and my hands won't stop shaking.

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What are you currently up to?

I just finished teaching my first class for National University's MFA program, an all-online Intro to Poetry Seminar. It was fascinating to try to give feedback on poems as a class without all the little tricks of body language and voice inflection; I remembered how much I rely on non-verbal cues when I teach. But it was a great adventure.

I'm working on some new manuscripts: one that investigates female heroines in Japanese pop culture and folk tales, and the idea of "mono no aware" or "softly despairing sorrow," another about being trapped in the physical body and the stories of Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White, and the third is a just-begun collection about growing up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in the shadow of the birth-place of nuclear bombs, as the daughter of a robotics scientist. The first two I'm actively seeking publishers for; the third is still in progress.

Also, I just moved to Southern California from the Pacific Northwest, so I'm still trying to get used to all the palm trees, surfers and women that wear Ugg boots when it's 60 degrees. It's definitely an alien landscape.

Becoming the Villainess is your first book-length collection. Did the manuscript develop naturally, or did it go through many versions?

I began putting together a full-length collection as soon as Pudding House Press offered to publish my little chapbook called "Female Comic Book Superheroes." Putting together the chapbook made me realize just how many poems I'd written over ten years with the same themes, the same characters, the same voices. I originally tried to create a more conventionally-poetic, uplifting manuscript, but one day my husband came along and read my manuscript and said something about how the real story of the book was how the speakers go from powerlessness to power, from innocent to corrupt, from the princess to the villainess. So I titled it "Becoming the Villainess" and stopped trying to fight the dark side of the MS or impose a happy ending on the collection. I also had terrific insight from a bunch of friends about the manuscript during the eighteen months I sent it out. Finally, I decided to rearrange it according to comic book structure--the origin story, the character arc, the final frame, and so on. That felt right. And just after I rearranged it that way, Steel Toe Books' Tom Hunley called to say they wanted to publish it.

You have a website, a blog, and a presence on social networking sites, such as FaceBook. Do you feel having an Internet presence helps spread the word about your writing?

I do feel that it has helped, although, to be honest, I'm sort of a techie geek and love to be on the computer so I'd probably do the website, blog, and Facebook stuff even if I wasn't a poet. Shameful secret: I learned to program video games in BASIC on my Dad's TRS-80 when I was six. So I don't really need an excuse to play around with technology. But if I did, I think that all writers who want to hear from their readers and peers should engage online. You'll get to know people who will never be able to attend one of your readings, whom you might never meet in person, so in that way it does extend your audience.

I do get quite a few e-mails from people who have found my work online and loved it, and I think the blog community has been very supportive. I've met a lot of people "online" and then read their work or met them in person, and was so thankful that they had a blog or website or posted on a discussion board, so I could discover their wonderful work.

On your website, you offer poetry consulting and editing services. What do you see as a common problem poets make in assembling collections?

I think it's hard for most writers (including me) to get enough distance from their own collections to really see what they are really about or what the collection is doing for the reader. What's the subtext? What's the arc? How are the poems related to one another in a larger sense? Sometimes when I read manuscripts I get interesting insights about the writer's personality, about what they choose to share with the world. That's the delightful, fun part of editing a manuscript. It's kind of like a makeover show in that way. Usually people have a bunch of great work put together in a not-so-great way. As an editor, I want to help people present their work in the most intelligent, interesting, dynamic way possible. Sometimes people put together great collections of individual poems with nothing coherent about the collection itself, just a ramshackle bunch of poems. Sometimes the manuscript is terrific and coherent, but the writer chose to put their weakest or most off-putting work first or last. Or they take ten pages to get to the real subject of the collection. Often, it's just a matter of cutting a few poems, a bit of rearrangement, and talking to the author about what they are trying to say with their manuscript and making them aware of their quirks and their strengths. Then, they're usually off and running.

You've been published widely. How do you go about submitting your work, including tracking where everything is?

In Seattle I had a group of poet friends who would meet and encourage each other to send stuff out, make goals, bring in copies of their favorite lit mags, that kind of thing. That was tremendously helpful. I also spent a year reviewing literary journals for NewPages.com, which was probably the best way ever to research a ton of literary magazines I might not ever have heard of otherwise. I encourage every aspiring poet to spend a year writing lit mag reviews for NewPages.com.

As far as nuts and bolts: I've used Writer's Market's online submission tracker, Dueotrope, and I have made my own Excel spreadsheet of poems to send out and where they've been sent. Even with all that, I still lose track once in a while, or receive a rejection or acceptance from a place I don't remember ever sending poems to. I blame my (evil and disorganized) alter ego.

In Becoming the Villainess, you have to get inside the skin of several characters. Did you find this tactic liberating as a writer?

When I first discovered persona poetry as a younger writer, I absolutely felt at home. Persona poetry allows poets to use fiction writers' tools without all the commitment of a novel! Character, plot, dialogue--and a wonderful liberation from "normalcy." I am a champion of persona poetry exercises for writers because often it requires the writer to make a leap in imagination--kind of the opposite of the old "write what you know" adage, instead "write what you can imagine"--and empathy. To write a good persona poem, a writer must develop a sense of empathy for the character they're writing about, go beyond "good" or "bad" to really identify with another person. In my case, embracing and then challenging the stereotypes about women in popular culture and mythology also allowed me to re-write stilted roles--busty superheroine, powerless princess, femme fatale, etc.--which was very satisfying.

Since you mentioned to me in an earlier e-mail that you're a "sort of comic book and sci-fi geek," I've just got to ask: Who would be the last person standing in a battle between Spider-Man, The Hulk, Batman, Superman, Catwoman, Wonder Woman, The Joker, Magneto, Wolverine, Storm, the Invisible Woman, Lex Luthor, James T. Kirk, Spock, Darth Maul, Obi Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Yoda, and Luke Skywalker?

Why does it always have to be fighting? Wonder Woman could use her "golden lasso of truth" and they could all get in a circle and talk about how it feels to be different--I mean, alien, mutant, evil genius--these are people that could use a little group therapy.

Seriously, though, Dr. Manhattan, of course. And maybe Dark Phoenix. They'd make a great couple, wouldn't they?

But my favorite comic book character right now is Joss Whedon's Fray.

Who are you currently reading?

I just finished The Elegance of the Hedgehog, a French novel I can't stop talking about because I love it so much. Philosophy, Japanese pop culture, action movies, class issues--it has it all! And I finally got to The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which was brutal but fantastic.

As for poetry, I'm a frequent reviewer and so I'm knee-deep in new books! Suzanne Frishkorn's Lit Windowpane, Michelle Bitting's Good Friday Kiss, Jericho Brown's Please…I think that's just the top three on a stack about three feet high.

I also recently read Alicia Ostriker's book of essays, For the Love of God. There's an essay in there about Ecclesiastes that blows my mind every time I read it. And I loved Beth Ann Fennelly's Unmentionables and Rachel Zucker's Bad Wife Handbook so much I wrote an essay about them, which I am trying to find a home for.

If you could pass on only one piece of advice to your fellow poets, what would it be?

Don't be afraid to write about the subjects you care most about; not every poem has to be about snow falling on an old farmhouse. Stick with your passions. Embrace your own special weirdness.

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To check out Jeannine Hall Gailey's website, go to www.webbish6.com.

For more information on Steel Toe Books, go to www.steeltoebooks.com.

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Call for Submissions--2010 Poet's Market!

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:19:23 GMT

As some of you may know, I will be editing the 2010 edition of Poet's Market (Writer's Digest Books). Anyway, I have a pretty good idea of the interviews I'd like to include in the book, but I'd like to hear pitches for other possible articles.

If you're a poet with a great idea for a craft or business of poetry article, please send it my way at robert.brewer@fwpubs.com. Put "Pitch for 2010 Poet's Market" in your subject line so that I can easily identify it. (Do NOT pitch me in the blog comments, please. It's just a lot easier to manage in my work email account.)

I don't need anything too fancy in the pitch, but I do want to have a clear idea of what you're pitching, who you are, and why you're the person to write the piece.

My goal is to make most (if not all) of my assignments by the end of this week; so, don't sit around crafting the perfect query--if your idea sounds interesting, I'll probably bounce ideas your way.

Good luck!

Rabbit Season/Duck Season/Submission Season

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:52:21 GMT

I used to love that Looney Tunes cartoon where Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck would argue over rabbit and duck season until Bugs fooled Daffy into saying, "It's duck season. Duck season!" And then, he'd get shot, and say something like, "I hate you," to Bugs--who's so smart, yet always (always) takes a wrong turn at Albuquerque. Anyway, I'm not concerned with rabbit or duck season in this post. Instead, I'm focused on submission season, especially for college-run literary journals.

19 literary journals are listed below by the date that they re-open their submission periods (after taking the summer off). Remember: This is only a short list of possible places to get your poetry published. WritersMarket.com lists more than 200 literary journals, and Poet's Market offers more than 1,600 poetic listings. So if you want comprehensive, go to those resources; in the meantime, check out this list.

August 1

August 15

Alaska Quarterly Review

August 16

Georgia Review

August 31

Subtropics

September 1

September 2

September 15

Bellingham Review

Super Cool News: 2009 Poet's Market!

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:11:00 GMT

After copying some of my writing into my super sophisticated composition notebook at lunch, I discovered that the 2009 Poet's Market is back from the printer, which means that soon (very, very soon) this directory will be getting to both print and online bookstores. Yes, another edition of Poet's Market is on its way out to the public.

As usual, there are a lot of great poetry listings for magazines & journals, book & chapbook publishers, contests & awards, grants and more. There's also a lot of great interviews and profiles and how-to's and, yes, more.

More. More. More.

Anyway, cool stuff.

2008 Poet's Market -- closed markets

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:44:09 GMT

As I've been combing through the updates for the 2009 Poet's Market, I've gathered the following group of KILLS for listings that appear in the 2008 edition (OB means out of business or cancelled; NP means no longer publishing poetry; RR means the editor requested removal of the listing from Poet's Market):

MAGAZINES/JOURNALS

Art With Words Poetry Quarterly (OB)
Between Kisses Newsletter (OB)
Child Life (OB)
eye (OB)
Gambara Magazine (OB)
Heartlands: A Magazine of Midwest Life & Art (OB)
Mindprints, A Literary Journal (OB)
Outposts Poetry Quarterly (OB)
Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine (OB)
SleepingFish (NP)
Small Brushes (RR for 2009 edition only)
Touchstone Literary Journal [TX] (OB)
TRIBUTARIES [OH] (OB)

BOOK/CHAPBOOK PUBLISHERS

Calamari Press (RR)
Panther Creek Press (RR)

CONTESTS & AWARDS

Helen Vaughn Johnson Memorial Haiku Award (OB)
Newburyport Art Assoc. Annual Spring Poetry Contest (OB)
Seasonal Poetry Competition (OB)

--Nancy

Deadline extended for The Alfred Hodder Fellowship

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:33:24 GMT

I've just learned from Janine Braude at Princeton that the deadline for the Alfred Hodder Fellowship has been extended. Instead of November 1, the deadline for applications is now January 1, 2008.

THE ALFRED HODDER FELLOWSHIP

Program in Creative Writing, 185 Nassau St., Princeton NJ 08542. (609)258-4096. Fax: (609)258-2230. E-mail: jbraude@princeton.edu. Website: www.princeton.edu/arts/hodder_fellowship. Contact: Janine Braude.

--Nancy

Moves Made at The New Yorker

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:34:37 GMT

"Pulitzer Winner to Take Over as New Yorker's Poetry Editor," by Motoko Rich for The New York Times, reports, "Alice Quinn, the poetry editor of The New Yorker, is stepping down after 20 years and will be succeeded in one of the most influential posts in the poetry world by Paul Muldoon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet."

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Check here for other Poetry News.

LOTS of Poet's Market updates...

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:54:41 GMT

Here are some changes to note in your copy of the 2008 edition of Poet's Market:

1) The e-mail addy in the Pennsylvania Poetry Society Annual Contest

listing should be changed from pps_contest_chair@hotmail.com (now

inactive) to paperlesspoetsonline@hotmail.com.

2) "I'm sorry to say, my journal eye > is no more," writes editor Peter

    Schwartz. I'm adding eye to the "Closing Post 2008 Edition" list at the

    bottom here.

3) Lyric Poetry Review > did not appear in the 2008 edition, but should have

    (another verification that went into an e-mail black hole). Submission

    guidelines are here. Additional update: Nathaniel Perry should now be

    listed as editor.

4) John Palattella, poetry editor for The Nation, writes:

Please note that as of 10 September, the guidelines for submitting poems to The Nation are as follows.

The Nation welcomes unsolicited poetry submissions. You may send up to three poems at a time, and no more than eight poems during a calendar year. Send poems by First-Class Mail, accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. The Nation does not read simultaneous submissions, nor can it reply to or return poems sent by fax or e-mail or submitted without an SASE. Manuscripts may be mailed to:

John Palattella

Poetry Editor

The Nation

33 Irving Place

New York, NY 10003

The submission guidelines are posted on The Nation's website.
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5) Yemassee has new contact information: E-mail:

   editor@yemasseejournal.org. Website: www.yemasseejournal.org.

    Contact: Darien Cavanaugh and Jonathan Maricle, co-editors.

6) The Concrete Wolf Chapbook Press Contest did not appear in the 2008

    edition; however, we were later notified that their contact information has

   changed to: Address: P.O. Box 788, Kirkland WA 98083. E-mail:

    concretewolf@yahoo.com. Website: http://concretewolf.com. Contact:

    Lana Hechtman Ayers, editor/publisher.

7) Although Southern California Review didn't appear in the 2008 edition,

    Annlee Ellingson, editor-in-chief, notified us of lots of changes in contact

    information (note: also a change of title--formerly Southern California

   Anthology): Address: c/o Master of Professional Writing Program, 3501

   Trousdale Parkway, Mark Taper Hall, THH 355J, University of Southern

    California, Los Angeles CA 90089-0355. E-mail: scr@college.usc.edu.

    Website: www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/mpw/students/sca.php.

Special note: >> This post by Reb Livingston shows why small journals and presses and their editors are my heroes. Talk about dedication. Show your appreciation--buy a small press publication today! (Reb's magazine and press are not listed in Poet's Market; read her post--do NOT send her queries or manuscripts.)

--Nancy

More Poet's Market updates are available here.

A list of closed literary journals is here.

A market that's NOT closed: River Oak Review

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:20:40 GMT

I've received an e-mail from Lance Wilcox, Associate Poetry Editor of River Oak Review. He discusses a situation I just hate to hear about--an editor returned a listing verification for the 2008 edition of Poet's Market, but somehow I never received it:

"I recently purchased the 2008 Poet's Market for my personal use and was surprised not to see our journal listed. When I mentioned it to Ann Frank Wake, our Poetry Editor, she was quite upset. She is sure she revised and submitted the necessary materials to update our listing in a timely manner…I know how conscientious she is, so I believe she did return the revised listing on time and the snafu occurred somewhere else."

Indeed, the snafu was probably the great junk mail filter "black hole" into which too much mail disappears. I searched through all my records and my electronic files of returned verifications, and I don't have anything for River Oak Review. I also review my long list of "blocked" e-mails each day, but I may have overlooked this verification at the time. I'm quite capable of making mistakes, and do.

Whatever the cause, River Oak Review didn't have a listing in the 2008 Poet's Market, and that doesn't make me happy. I value every listing and hate the long list of "NR" (no response) markets that appear in the General Index in each edition. Since I'm the only person working on the book, it's impossible for me to contact all these markets individually to see if they forgot to return their listing updates. I send out at least one, sometimes two follow-up mailings to markets I haven't heard from, but these are easily disregarded if an editor believes he/she already responded.

Please add River Oak Review to your list of potential markets (the submission guidelines are here). And believe me, River Oak Review will appear in the 2009 edition of Poet's Market.

--Nancy

2008 Poet's Market correction: Crab Orchard Review

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:43:53 GMT

In the comments to this post, editor Allison Joseph points out an error in the Crab Orchard Review listing in the 2008 Poet's Market:

Hi Nancy:

Thanks for listing Crab Orchard Review in Poet's Market 2008. Unfortunately, there's a mistake in our entry. We pay $20 per page for poetry, $50 mininum. (It says $100 minimum in our entry). We wish we could pay poets $100 per poem, but we'd soon be out of business!

Thanks,

Allison Joseph

Editor & Poetry Editor

Thanks for the correction, Allison! The "$100 minimum" should have jumped out at me. Maybe, subconsciously, it was wishful thinking??? (Although $20 per page certainly isn't to be scoffed at.)

See Crab Orchard >'s website for current guidelines.

--Nancy

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Closed markets list from 2008 POET'S MARKET

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:14:44 GMT

As I mentioned in this post, I planned to put up a list of journals, presses, and contests listed as "out of business" in the general index of the upcoming 2008 edition of Poet's Market.

As I gathered the information from the book's database, I discovered some other examples of listings coded in the index as "discontinued," "removal requested," "on hiatus," "no longer publishing poetry," and "overstocked." Consequently, I've broken the list below under those headings and added comments from editors and publishers wherever I'd received them.

This list reflects information we received during the most recent production cycle for Poet's Market--which began in November, 2006. Consequently, some of this information is old news for some readers, but I'm including everything for the sake of being complete. I've also included recent closings that I've posted on Poetic Asides. As additional news comes in, I'll post that information and link to this list in updated form.

OUT OF BUSINESS / DISCONTINUED

Arable: A Literary Journal

Blue Mouse, The

Chelsea

Crying Sky: Poetry & Conversation

Dana Literary Society Online Journal - due to personal time constraints

Dead End: City Limits

Entropy Magazine

Flesh and Blood: Quiet Tales of Dark Fantasy & Horror

Fresh Ground - has suspended publication "for now"

Gin Bender Poetry Review

Hard Row to Hoe - ceasing publication

McGinnis Award, The Tim

Nisqually Delta Review

P.D.Q. (Poetry Depth Quarterly)

Palanquin Press - "don't plan to be doing anything with the press

in the foreseeable future"

Pen & Inc Press

Poetry for Pets Contest - "cancelled"

Poets at Work

Pretext

Reactions

Red Owl Magazine

Speakeasy - print edition ceased with summer 2006 edition

Spire Magazine

True Poet Magazine

Zillah: A Poetry Journal & Newsletter

EDITOR/PUBLISHER REQUESTED REMOVAL

Bank Street Writers Competition

Borderlines - for 2008 edition

Fox Cry Review - publishing mostly regional writers and students

Generator / Generator Press

Loonfeather

Myeloma Awareness Open Poetry Competition

Naked Knuckle

One Trick Pony

Poet's Art, The - for 2008 edition

ON HIATUS

Cellar Door Magazine - length of hiatus undetermined

88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry - length of hiatus undetermined

Rhapsoidia - possibly permanent hiatus

RUNES, A Review of Poetry - temporary hiatus

NO LONGER PUBLISHING POETRY

Cezanne's Carrot

Over the Back Fence Magazine

OVERSTOCKED

Sakana - not printing any new issues "at the moment," doesn't need submissions

Weird Tales: The Unique Magazine - overstocked with poetry until January 2008

CLOSING POST 2008 EDITION (updated 9/19/07)

Diner

Pikeville Review, The

eye

--Nancy

DINER closing

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:56:36 GMT

A reader has e-mailed me that she just received a letter from Diner announcing that the journal is no longer reading work and that the 2007 edition will be its last, due to funding.

--Nancy

PIKEVILLE REVIEW closes

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:57:57 GMT

I've received word from editor Sydney C. England that Pikeville Review is closing down. According to the e-mail, "…our small volunteer staff could not continue providing this service." Pikeville Review was verified for the 2008 edition of Poet's Market (on sale next month), so please make a note of this closure in your copy.

I'm planning to post a list of journals and presses that were listed as "out of business" in the 2008 Poet's general index. As I receive additional news of closures, I'll repost the list with each update. Watch for it in the next week or two.

--Nancy